5t
V e t 1 (0 * IF
which, whether »he accept» it or not, b
O tnofc.
D ip o r wooh the ouimolo w ith 0 1 or
2 per cent w ater oolatloo o f a tor dis
Qnr hod never felt o »hooper pang than
that which jm > w thrilled through over;
infectant, such an kreaa ▲ convenient
nerve, bat Be would not prove foloe to
w ay to' apply the remedy In the larger
the frisad confiding In him, and ha an
animala la with • «p ra y pump, and In
sheep or boga by dipping} W hatever
method ip uaed, the coat and akin must
Street railw ays with care operated
be thoroughly wot w ith the solution. by manual pow er are In use at Mom-
A fte r treating the hr**t, the ■ tables, boas, In Bast A frica. The light, nar-
sheds or sleeping quartern should be
apfayed' w ith about a 1 per cent w ater
solution o f the disinfectant, or white-
r w M M s Co* fo r Hears.
wash may be used Instead. T h is Is
Follow in g ta the description given by necessary In order to prevent reinfect
ing the herd from the surroundings.
I f there te much litter around the yards
It Is advisable to mo\* the herd to
other corals.
T a r dial factanto In 1
or 2 f o r cent solutions do not destroy
the eHfa or nlte, hence It Is necessary
the doctor, who, now that the too was
Thfi floor to built first, w ith 2x4a to treat the animal again |n ten days
broken, would like to have talked o f aa stringers, and tbs fram e Is hold on or tw o Vrdeks.
Stockmen sometime«
Maddy forever.
| the door by blocks at each corner. Th e ask If the feeding o f sulphur to lousy
But Guy waa not thus Inclined, sod In U rge iU ed house to provided w ith two animala w ill not d rive aw ay or de
Sa££
do° " ln * « » » ™ d • temporary mov- stroy the lice. Th e feeding o f m a ll
£ ^ n i 2 ^ n S i T L ^ r £ w «a
a N * Pa rt,« o n and a temporary mor- doses o f sulphur w ill do no harm, nor
now ona bit intersstad la the party, and, able P e t it io n h> the middle ao that the w ill It help In getting rid o f the lice,
were It not that a few o f the Invitations «>* can easily be adjusted to accom- and It cannot be considered a remedy
were Imued, he would have been ♦—np*td niodate tw o lots o f tw in e at the same far this d a m o f disorders when used
to give It up. Guy did not know what t lm . On a level with the glam win- In this way. Sulphur la effective, how
ailed him. He oaly felt ao If soattbody dowa, th e ft to klao a drop window, ever. when used externally, and the
had been meddling with his plana. B e preferably bung on hinges, fastened at addition o f four ounces to eve ry gallon
contented himself with driving like a tec- the top fo r ventilation and sunlight
o f tar disinfectant solution used great
and Jehu until he reached Honedale, l T h , lnmber repaired fo r the house ly Increase« the effectiveness o f the
where a pair of soft, brown eyes smiled
Dlacea. tw o
ap Into hit faqe, and a little, warm
** * * r* , owa ‘ T w elve pieces, rwo remedy.— Field and Farm.
waa clasped in^bis, aa Maddy —
even lache* bjr iour lDcbe*-
' on* -
F o x ta il a s * P ig w e e d .
to t h e r e t o mesh him.
I fo r fram e
Four Plecea- 009 lnch bJ
Both these woods áre annuals; that
She was very glad to see him. Tha tw elve
Inches, sixteen
feet
long
co t^ ge with Its humble adorning» did (ro u g h ), fo r floor. Thirteen pieces, one Is, they grow from seeds each year or
seem lonely, almost dreary, after tha Ilfs Inch by tw elve Inches, sixteen feet season and the plants die a fter ripen
ahd bustle o f New York, and Maddy had long, fo r roof and ends. Ten O. O. ing seeds. Th e w a y to keep them down
cried more than oace to think bow hard ...........................
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to to prevent the plants from ripening
and wicked aha must be growing when m m n j n m s ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^
need and making ours that are no seeds
her borne had ceased to be the dear oM
In the grain sown upon tha farm. F o x
home she once lovad ao well. Sha hod
tail to tr oublesome, because It springs
H I ___ r_ __ _________ . ___ notwith
up In cultivated fields a fter the crops
standing the erforts o f her grand perenta
are laid by, and then It comes up In
to entertain bar, each day had seem ad a
stubble and In meadows and pastures.
week in its duration. Neither the doctor
L a te cultivation o f corn fields, and
nor Gay bad been near her, and espri-
mowing the stubble, meadows and pas
tures to ksep asada from forming, to
tbs w a y to attack this weed. Judging
^ M a d d y was getting to bo a woman, with ^ « s n a su tesn fort long, fo r asallng from the w ay these weeds spring up,
whenever conditions are favorable,
womanly beaks, as tbs reader win read- cracka b« twcen boards.
U y r a l/ A tG u y .ha waa not particularly
Tha total cost o f material to build there must bo grea t atarea o f them In
piqued. She did not take hi» attention» th® cot with floor, door, and window cultivated fields— showing the seeds are
aa a matter o f coarse; still she thought complete amounts to about gl2£0. For long-lived. Pigw eed quickly springs up
more, o f him, i f possible, than o f tha doe- neatness,
ecomesny, durability, and In corn s r potato fields, a fter culti
tor, during those five days, laying to comfort to animals, this type o f cot Is vation has ceased. These seeds ripen
herself each morning: “ H e’ll rarely c o m excellen t W here It to desirable to
t^
’” and 10 her*e l,„ ea' i " i * hi : “ Ha keep a number o f bogs in one lot the
T“
> b* f ^ “ or~ w’" 8b* , bad
large site I. preferable: T h e cot w ill
thing te show him at last— a letter f r o m
“ ___ . .
..
. _
.
L u c , Atherstooe. who had gradually corns » ' « « ‘ “ odate from three to five mature
to bs her regulaf
correspondent, and anlmal" and tb® Iar* * « * fro™
whom Maddy had learned to lev« with to nlDa- Although the W isconsin, sta-
alj the intensity o f her girlhood. T o her tlon has a U rg e hoghonm w ith feed
ardent Imagination Lucy Atberstone was room. Beales, etc., the com have been
but a little lower than the angels, sad found a convenient means o f ttalarg-
the pure, sweet thoughts contained in ev- <ng the facilities o f the piggery.
ery letter were doing ahnoet aa much
...........
towards molding her character aa Grand-
T o F eed th e Hesse,
pa Markham’s prayers and constant teach-
a common
w ay o f feeding dray
ings. Maddy did not know it, but it waa hones and other street teams la the
these letters from Lucy which kept her d t u Illustrated here. / A sack to
from loving Guy Remington. She could
7
not ter a moment aaaociate him with her-
w
self when ahe ae constantly thought o f
strong ducking o f n
hero."
/ÏIKENSIBE
C H A P T E R X IV .— (Continued.)
It srss a sore trial for Maddjr to write
to Lacy Atherstooe, bat she « f m d no
remonstrance, and so accompanying the
picture was a little note, filled mostly
with praleee of Mr. Guy, and which
would he very gratifying to the unsus
pecting Lucy.
* Now that it fully decided for Jessie to
go with Maddy, her lemons were expend
ed, and Aikenside for the time bell g was
turned into a vast dressmaking establish
ment. With his usual generosity G ut
had given Agnes permission to drat ’
upon his purse for whatever was • seder,
either for herself or Jessie, with the del •
ntte understanding that Maddy about!
have an equal share of dress and at ten-
tioD.
/
" I t will not be necessary," he said, "fo r
you to enlighten the citisene of New York
with regard to Maddy's position. She
goes there aa Jessie's equal, and her
wardrobe must be suitable.”
No one could live long with Maddy
Clyde without becoming interested in her,
and in spite of herself Agnes' dislike was
wearing away, particularly as o f late she
had seen no signs of special attention on
the doctor’s pari. He had gotten over
kia weakness, she thought, and so waa
very gracious toward Maddy, who, nat
urally forgiving, began to like her .better
than she had ever dreamed it possible for
her to like so proud and haughty a worn-
Down at the cottage in Honedale
there were many consultations held and
many fears expressed by the aged couple
as to what would be the result of all Guy
waa doing for their child.
A few days before Msddy’s departure.
anxious to know something more than
hearsay about a person to whose care his
child waa to be partially intrusted. Agues
waa in her room when told who wanted
to see her. Starting quickly, she turned
ao deadly white that Maddy, who brought
the message, flew to her side, asking in
^much alarm what waa the matter.
"Only a little faint. It will soon pass
off," Agnes said, and then, dismissing
Maddy, she tried to compose herself suffi
ciently to pass the ordeal she so much
dreaded, and from which there waa no
possible escape.
Thirteen years! Had they changed her
past recognition T She hoped, she believed
an, and yet, never in her life had Agnes
Remington's heart beaten with so much
terror and apprritension as when she en
tered the reception room where Guy sat
talking with tha infirm old man ahe re
membered ao- well. His snowy hair waa
parted just the same aa ever, but the
asiM blue eye was dimmer, and it rooted
on her with ao suspicious glance, as, par
tially reassured, she glided acroas the
threshold, and bowed civilly when Guy
presented her.
A little anxious as to how her grand
father would acquit himself, Maddy sat
by, wondering why Agnes appeared ao ill
at ease; sad why her grandsire started
sometimes at the sound of her voice, and
looked earnestly at her. >
“ W e’ ve never met before to my knowl
edge, young woman," he said once to Ag
nes, "hut you are mighty like somebody,
and your voice, when you talk low, keeps
maltin' me jump aa if I ’d beard it sum’ers
or other."
A fter that Agnes spoke in elevated
tomes, aa if she thought hhn deaf, and
the mystified look of wonder did not re
t a i l to hi» face. Numerous were the
charges he gave to Agnes concerning
Maddy, bidding her be watchful of his
child; then, aa he arose to go, he laid
his trembling hand on her head and said
solemnly: "You are young yet, lady, and
those may be a long life before you. God
blase you, then, and prosper you in pro
portion aa you are kind to Maddy. I ’ve
nothing to give you nor Mr. Guy for your
goodness only my prayers, and them yon
have every day. W e all pray for yon,
lady, Joseph and all, though I doubt me
ho knows much the meaning of what he
“ Who, sir? What did you say?” and
Agnes’ face waa scarlet, as grandpa re
plied : “ Joseph, our unfortunate boy;
Maddy must have told you, the one who'a
taken such a shine to Jeeaie. From the
corner where he .sits ao much I can hear
Urn whispering by the hour, sometimes of
folks he used te know, and then of yen,
who we call madam. He says ter ten
minutes on ths stretch: ‘Cod bless the
madam— the madam— the madam ? You’re
sick, lady; talk is ’ about him makes yon
faint,” grandpa added, hastily, as Agnes
turned white as the dress she wore.
“ No— oh, no, I ’m better now," Agnes
gasped, bowing him to the door with a
feeling that she could breathe no longer
In hie presence.
He did not hear her faint cry of bitter,
bitter remorse, as he wslked through tt«e
hall, nor know she watched him aa he
went slowly down the walk, stopping
often to admire the fair blossoms which
Maddy did not feel at liberty to pick.
“ He loved flowers,” Agnes whispered,
as her better nature prevailed over every
other feeling, and, starting eagerly for
ward, she ran after the old man, who,
surprised at her evident haste, waited a
little anxiously for her to speak. It waa
rather difficult to do so with Maddy’s in
quiring eyes upon her, but Agnes man
aged at last to say:
“ Does that man like flower*— the ooe
who prays for the madam?"
“ Yes, be used to years ago," grandpa
replied; and, bending down, Agnes began
te pick and arrange into a most tasteful
bouquet tbe blossoms and boda of May,
growing so profusely within the borders.
“ Take them te him, will you?" and bar
hand shook aa she passed to Grandpa
Markham the gift Which would thrill
poor Joseph with a strongs delight, mak
ing hhn bold converse a while with tbe
unseea presence which he called "riie,”
and then whisper blessings on ths mad
am's head.
Three days after this, a party o f four
l«Lt Aikenside. which presented a most
for.wra and cheerless appearance to the
pass vs-hy, who were glad almost os tha
ea life of solitude and lonellneaa, with
nothing in particular to interest him, ex
cept his hooks and the letters he wrote
to Lucy; unless. Indeed, It were thorn he
was going to write to Maddy, who, with
Jessie, had promised to become his cor
respondent. Nothing hat those and the
picture— the doctor’s picture— the one de
signed expressly for him, and which trou
bled him greatly. Believing that he had
fully intended it for the doctor, Guy felt
aa If it were. In a measure, stolen prop
erty, and this made hlm prias it all the
more.
Now that Maddy was away Guy miss
ed her terribly, wondering how b* had
ever lived without her, and sometimes
working himself into a violent passion
against tbs meddlesome neighbors who
would not let her remain with Mm
gone, did not« stop their talking one whit.
O f this last, however, he was ignorant,
as there was no one to tell him how peo
ple marveled more than ever, feeling con
fident that he waa educating his own wife.
and making sundry hateful remarks aa to
what he intended doing with her re-
istioos. Guy only knew that he waa very
lonely, that Lucy’s letters seemed insipid,
that eves the doctor failed to interest
him aa of old, and that his greatest com
fort was in looking at the bright young
face which seemed to
ille so truthfully^
upon him from the tiny casing just aa
Maddy had smiled upon him when he
CH APTE R XV.
• ,
The ta n n e r vacation had been spent
by the Remingtons and Maddy at the
absent from home, she did not meet him
at all.« Consequently, ha had not seen
her since ah* left Aikenside for New
York. But riie waa at home now for the
Christmas holidays— was down at the cot
tage. to o ; and unusually nervous for him,
the doctor stood before the little square
glass la his hack office, trying to make
himself look 'as well as possible, for he
was going that very afternoon to call up
on Mias Clyde.
The doctor waa seriously in love. He
acknowledged that now to himself, con
fessing, too, that with his lova was
mingled a spice of jealousy, lest Guy
Remington should be expensing more
thought on Maddy Clyde than waa consis
tent with the promised husband of Lucy
Atberstone. He wished so much to talk
with Guy about her, and yet dreaded It;
for If the talk should confirm his suspi
cions there Would be no hope for him. No
girl In her right mind would prefer him
to Guy Remington, and with a little sigh
the doctor waa turning away from the
glass, when Guy himself drove up In a
moat dashing equipage.
Guy was in the best o f »pipits. For
an entire half-day he had tried to devise
some means for getting Maddy up to
Aikenside. There waa to be a party at
Aikensida— the very first since Gay was
Its master. The neighbors had said he
should m y so no more. The house was
to be thrown open in honor of Guy’ s
twenty-sixth birthday, and all who were
at all desirable aa guests were to be bid
den to the festival. First on the list was
the doctor. Guy was all engaged in the
matter, and after telling who were to be
invited, added rather indifferently: " I ’m
going now down to Honedale after Mad
dy : It ’s better for her to be with us a
day or two before. You’ve eeen her, of
course.”
No, the doctor had not; he was just
going there, he said, in a tone so full of
sad disappointment that Guy detected it
“ I have not seen Maddy since last
spring, you know. Is she very much im
proved?” asked the tbe doctor.
“ Yes, very much. There Is no more
stylish-looking girl to be seen on Broad
way than Maddy Clyde. I took her to
the opera once, last month, and the many
admiring glances cast at our box proved
pretty positively that Maddy’s beauty was
not of the ordinary kind.”
“ Tbe opera!” the doctor exclaimed;
“ Maddy Clyde wt the opera ! What would
her grandfather say? He Is very puritan
ical, you know.’
“ Yes, I know ! and so is Maddy, too.
She wrote and obtained his consent be
fore she’d go with me.”
Here an interval of silence ensued, and
then tbe doctor began again.
“ Guy, you told me once you were edu
cating Maddy Clyde for me, and I tried
to make you think I didn't care; but 1
did, oh, so much! Guy, laugh at me, if
you please. I cannot blame you if you
do; but the fact is, 1 believe I've loved
Msddy Clyde ever since that time she
72
was averse to the match, that she had
noon aao.
‘ rou* “
in her mind the case o f am English lord,
, ,
..
. ■”
fourtea*
who would make her daughter
“ My mcb*‘ ,D ,en* th- Th e bottom
to made
L a d y " ; and this was the secret o f her ° * • fo o d stiff piece o f barneee leather
deferring ao long her daughter’s marriage, cat out and sewed firm ly Into the hem,
In her lost letter to Maddy,' however, o f the docking. A leather strap to
Lucy had written with more than her riveted Into one side o f the mouth o f
usual spirit that ahe would come in poa- the sack, and a buckle Is riveted on
session of her property on her twenty-fifth the other. « , that tbe whole may 5 *
birthday She shouid then feel at liberty ^ . apped on to
horae.a head> aa
to act for herself, and she launched out .
. _ . _ ,____
Into joyful anticipation, o ' the time when abown\
” d
\ l** 6
mU*t
she should come to A ik d s id . and
meet * » unchecked’ and he " * * learns to
her dear Maddy Clyde.
P>ac® th« “ <* OT the ground, where he
Guy began to talk with Maddy, asking
posh his nose to the bottom o f J t to
bow she had spent her tim^ and so forth, d e t n out the last o f the food.
This reminded Maddy of the doctor, who,
F o r the fan ner who takes a day to
she said, had not been to we her at all. go to town these backs w ill be found
"H e eras coming this norning,” Guy
handy, as a horse can be fed with
rejoined, “ but I persuaded him to defer them without any waste o f grain pro-
his call until yon were . t Aikensida. I ^ d ln g he Is unchecked. A. little can-
have eome to take you Mck with me, as tloo 8hoald be used In placing the sack
( T e ha continued.,
^ i T S
T i i * B ow .
ever, a fte r be has once eaten a meal
Bans Door Prop.
I have a few large barn doors that
are hang on hinges, and when I open
theffi I have always had to get a stick
now, and I was going down there this
very afternoon to tell her so. She’s old
enough. She was sixteen last October, the
“ Tenth
day,” Guy responded, thus
showing that be, too, waa keeping Maddy’s
age.
“ Yss, ths tenth day,” resumed the doc
tor.
“There’s ’most eleven years' dif
ference between us, but If she feels at all
aa I do, she trill not care, Guy,” and tha
doctor began to talk earnestly : “ I ’ll be
candid with you, and « y that yon have
sometimes made my heart ache a little.”
“ M e !" and Guy’s face was crimson,
white the doctor continued :
“ Yea, and I bag your pardon for It ; but
let ms ask you ooe question, and upon Its
answer w ill depend my futurs course with
regard to Maddy : Yen are true to Lucy ?"
Guy frit the blood trickling at the roots
of bla hair, but ha answered truthfully
aa be believed :
“ Yea, true ae steel,” white the generous
thought same over him that ha would
further the doctor's plana all ha possibly
z:
Texa s farm ers are getting 00 cents a
bushel fo r peanuts, and w ith a yield
o f. from fifty to six ty bnshela to the
acre are calling It “ big money." .
Th e acreage In peahnts fo r another
year w ill be large, aa this price w ill
bring more than cotton at 10 cents per
pound.
|
T b e farm ers o f Burmab have recog
nized the commercial value o f tbe pea
nut, and have this year Increased tbe
area planted to 78,743 from 87,110
acres last year, and It la reported that
a ’ much larger area w ill be planted to
this tuber next season. Thus fa r moot
o f the peanut planting Is done In the
provinces o f M agwe and Mylngyan.
W isd om o f H xperlenoo.
Nswpop (w e a r ily )— I t mast bs ttans
to got np, my dear.
Mrs. Nswpop— D id 1 yon boar ths
clock atrlks six?
Nswpop— N o ; bat tbs baby b n fal
len asleep.
S tella— D o you believe that M l «
Oldan come by her complexion hon
estly?
M abel— I know she did. I saw tbt
receipted bill fo r I t
Ba rns as the Others.
Hom er— I thought I bad at leant
mriflab friend in Griggeby.
M rs Hom er— W ell, haven’t you?
H om er— Mo. Only thin ■ »«fn >*8
anted to borrow | 1 (X
M ix »« t o t s a n .
Mrs. Annie Besant, the famooa the-
osophlst, was being Interviewed by a
reporter during tbe Theoeopblcal S o
ciety’ s convention In Chicago.
Mrs. Besant smiled broadly a t o o e
o f tbe reporter’s questions.
“ So fa r as theosophy goes," she sal\.
"you are a very Ignorant young mam-
This Ignorance puts yon at s dteaffi
vantage, doesn’t It? I fa ll to see bow
you can w rite s theoeopblcal article
o f the slightest value.”
«me frowned at the confused youth.
“ W hat you w rite w ill be ridiculous,"
ahe said— “ aa ridiculous aa the plight
o f tbe tw o beggars.
These beggars
knew no more o f reading and w ritin g
than yon know o f theosophy, and when
they got their placards mixed they
w ere not aw are o f I t Th e public w as
a good deal amused to see on the
placard o f tbe first beggar, a blind man,
the words, ‘Result p f a F a ll from a
F ifth Story w ind ow ,’ - and on the
placard o f tbe second beggar, who had
lost both leg«, ‘A Jealous Woman’s R e
venge.’ "
T h s S i lv e r L l s l s f .
“ Your nephew, that’s studyln’ to be a
doctor----- V '
•
“ W ell, now, he ain’t by any means
as useless aa you’d naturally think,”
philosophically said
honest
Farm er
Horn beak. “ Wihen he c o m « home on a
vacation I make him not only kill tbe
chickens, aa occasion ahises, bnt dress
’em. Into the bargain; and w hat little
knowledge he has already got o f sur
gery enables him to do g more artistic
job than any o f the rest o f us can do,
(n spite o f all the prsettee w e have bad
or something to késp them open ; to l In an unscientific way. A college edu
thought o f this little thing. I took g cation, Enoch, has Its bright aide, even
2x4 scantling and pnt a blogs on tbt U It does cost considerable."— Puck.
end .as shown In tbs c a t Then It If
Cnvmso H appy.
alw ays with tbs door.— Exchange.
Caruso baa been telling tbe people Ip
Berlin o f bla great s a e c s « In thp Unit
Sawdust a a d M l .
ed States, where, bs says, when en
prof. W . S. Masey says sawdust from
gaged by a m illionaire named Smith
resinous pine decays alowly In tbe soil,
to sing tw o songs, he got a check fo r
and w ill « n r tbe land when decayed.
18,000 and got 88,000 from a ph oto
Even When need fo r bedding In atablw
graph firm fo r four songs, which be
tbe manure te not worth h a lf ae much
cause o f a percentage on tbe « I s have
as t&at «with ordinary bedding. Look
already brought him 84,000 additional
about tbe remains o f aawduet accumu In one year.
lated about abandoned m ill a l t « that
About tbe beet l a * that happens to
ora cprnmon In tbe plney woods, and
yon Will m s that it t a k « a long time any town la that all o f th aw who look
a t an autumn aceaa and wish they
fa r oriy vegetation to start w h e n H P